What I need is very, very simple. I need an adapter that divides a 10-1 front panel connector into double or single pins. I don't believe that it is unreasonable to expect that such a simple product should exist; but it would appear that I am wrong. Any advice?
Looking for a 10-1 front panel connector adapter/divider
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- Dec 26, 2012
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Find an old, aftermarket case that you'd not mind destroying, it'll have the pin covers you need. Chop off the wires, toss the case. Remove the original pins 1 at a time, following pinout diagram or motherboard schematics as to which wire is which and swap the chopped covers to the original pins. Apart from Asus Q, there isn't any adapters for front panel connections as just about every other board is different, with different pinouts. So far as I know, only Asus has somewhat standardized their own pinouts.
+Karadjgne I actually ended up doing something pretty close to that. I'm currently recycling an old case (from an hp pavillion a335w with a pentium 4 processor), and the case had a built in case panel adaptor of some kind (but not the one I needed). I pulled the pins out of the connector that went to the motherboard so that I can use them on the new board (an asus p8h61-m le/csm).
I saw the Q adapters online but didn't like the look of them, and what I wanted isn't a specific adapter anyway. The motherboard pinout shouldn't matter if the adapter individually splits all the pins (this is how the pins are on my corsair carbide case, and you can buy replacement case switches and such with connectors split into single pins, so you would think that adapters that allow you to use existing switches would also exist).
I saw the Q adapters online but didn't like the look of them, and what I wanted isn't a specific adapter anyway. The motherboard pinout shouldn't matter if the adapter individually splits all the pins (this is how the pins are on my corsair carbide case, and you can buy replacement case switches and such with connectors split into single pins, so you would think that adapters that allow you to use existing switches would also exist).
- Dec 26, 2012
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Aftermarket cases don't need adapters, they got smart and went with universal fit single pins. That leaves pre-built cases, like Lenovo or Dell and they don't make adapters as their cases/mobo's are proprietary and they want any upgrades done through them, not by aftermarket parts.
But yeah, still sucks.
But yeah, still sucks.
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